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Youngest AER Youth Regional Network member meets “Napalm Girl”

1 February, 2017 By Editor

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Last December, Ms Göksu Zeybek, AER’s youngest Youth Regional Network member met with Kim Phùc, also known as the “Napalm Girl” while she was in Istanbul. Ms. Phùc, now 53 and a UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador, shared some of her great life lessons on forgiveness and courage to make a difference in a war-torn world.

Ms Zeybek concluded from this exceptional meeting: “I was very honoured and humbled to meet with such an inspiring women (…) Her hopeful vision for the future inspired me, and if she, a woman who has experienced war first hand and suffered for many years, can have hope for the future, we all can.”

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